elle

From Latin illae, feminine plural form of ille (“that”), from Old Latin olle (“that”). Cognates include Italian elle (“they”) and French elles (“they”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈɛlːe/
• Hyphenation: el‧le

elle f

1. they (feminine)
2. them (disjunctive)

• “elle” in INFCOR: Banca di dati di a lingua corsa
• https://web.archive.org/web/20210928184944/https://gbatti-alinguacorsa.pagesperso-orange.fr/

elle c

1. indefinite plural of el

• IPA^(key): /ɛl/
• (Quebec, informal) IPA^(key): /a/

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• Homophones: aile, ailes, elles, hèle, hèles, hèlent, L
• Rhymes: -ɛl

Inherited from Old French ele, from Latin illa, feminine of ille.

elle f (third-person singular, plural elles, accusative la, dative lui, emphatic elle, possessive determiner son)

1. she

   Je crois qu’elle est partie.

   I think she left.

2. it (feminine gender third-person singular subject pronoun)

   Voilà ma voiture. Elle a cinq ans.

   That's my car. It is five years old.

3. disjunctive form of elle; her; à elle = hers

   C’est à elle.

   It's hers.

• cézigue (argot)

elle m (plural elles)

1. The name of the Latin-script letter L/l.

• “elle”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé , 2012.

From Latin el (the name of the letter L).

• IPA^(key): /ˈɛl.le/
• Rhymes: -ɛlle
• Hyphenation: èl‧le

elle f (invariable)

1. The name of the Latin-script letter L/l.

• (Latin-script letter names) lettera; a, bi, ci, di, e, effe, gi, acca, i, gei / i lunga, cappa, elle, emme, enne, o, pi, cu, erre, esse, ti, u, vu / vi, doppia vu, ics, ipsilon / i greca, zeta

From Latin illae, nominative feminine plural of ille.

• IPA^(key): /ˈel.le/
• Rhymes: -elle
• Hyphenation: él‧le

elle f pl

1. (archaic) plural of ella

   Synonyms: esse, loro

• elleno

 elle on Latvian Wikipedia

Borrowed from Middle Dutch elle or Middle Low German helle (compare German Hölle, English hell). It is mentioned already in 16th-century literature and 17th-century dictionaries.^[1]

elle f (5th declension)

1. (theology) hell (in many religions, the place where some or all souls go after death)
2. (Christianity) hell (where the souls of sinners go after death to be punished by devils)

   nonākt ellē ― to end up in hell

   elles krāsns ― the furnace of hell

   elles mocības ― the torments of hell

3. (figuratively) infernal (very intense, tough, terrible, horrible)

   elles karstums ― infernal heat

   elles troksnis ― infernal noise

   elles darbs ― infernal, terrible, toughwork

   elles mokas ― infernal, horrible suffering

• pekle

elle

1. Alternative form of elne (“ell”)

elle f

1. she

• (Kautokeino) IPA^(key): /ˈeːlle/

ēlle

1. inflection of eallit:
   1. first-person dual present indicative
   2. third-person plural past indicative

elle (present tense ellar, past tense ella, past participle ella, passive infinitive ellast, present participle ellande, imperative elle/ell)

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• “elle” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

elle m (feminine ella, plural elles, feminine plural ellas)

1. Pre-reform spelling (until Brazil 1943/Portugal 1911) of ele.

Spanish Wikipedia has an article on:

LL (desambiguación)

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elle (pronombre)

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• Syllabification: e‧lle

elle f (plural elles)

1. name of the digraph Ll/ll, previously considered a letter

   Synonym: doble ele

elle gender-neutral (plural elles)

1. (gender-neutral, neologism) they, them (singular); a gender-neutral singular third-person personal pronoun

   elle es muy alte

   they are very tall

   • 2020, Alex Iantaffi, Meg-John Barker, translated by Raquel García Rojas, Cómo entender tu género: una guía práctica para explorar quién eres, Dos Bigotes, →ISBN:

     Meg-John ha notado que rara vez corrige a alguien si esa persona utiliza los pronombres incorrectos para referirse a elle en la presentación al comienzo de una conferencia.

     Meg-John has noticed that they rarely correct someone if that person uses the wrong pronouns to refer to them in the presentation at the beginning of a lecture.

• “elle”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.7, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2023 November 28

• elye

Unadapted borrowing from Spanish elle, the Spanish name of the letter LL/ll.

• (Standard Tagalog) IPA^(key): /ˈʔelje/
• Rhymes: -elje
• Syllabification: el‧le

elle (Baybayin spelling ᜁᜎ᜔ᜌᜒ)

1. (historical) the name of the Latin-script letter LL/ll, in the Abecedario

• ele

el +‎ le (from el and ile)

elle

1. by hand, manually

elle

1. second-person singular imperative of ellemek